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1 online resource (488 pages) |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Barberini Buy a Piece of Paradise While They Descend into Hell -- Newcomers in a “Patchwork City of Strangers� -- Making Appear Real What in Fact Was Feigned: The Barberini and Their Acquisitions in the Countryside -- The Charcoal Seller, the Hunter, and the Priest -- Speaking in Constitutions: The Villagers Talk Back to Their New Lords -- 2 Before It Was a Dirty Word: Politics in the Roman Countryside, 1640s�1680s -- Uncovering Village Politics |
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Failed Possession: Nerola and the Recovered Statuto“To Listen to These Hill-Folk, You�d Think Every One of Them Was a Lawyer� -- 3 The Adversary as Patron: Inviting the Barberini into Village Politics, 1660�1685 -- Taxes Paid and Houses Open: Citizens in the Countryside -- Petitioning the “First Citizen� to Be the Noble Patron of Monte Libretti -- The Prince as Mediator: Medical Controversies in Monte Libretti -- Private Interest Versus Public Good |
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4 The Epistolary Ambush of Monte Libretti: How Nobles Met the Challenge of the Papacy in the Early Eighteenth CenturyA Bureaucracy of Budgets -- A Bureaucracy on Horseback -- Administrative Vagabonds and Unreliable Paesani: Officials in Service to the Barberini -- Controlling Politics in a Land “Where Everyone Is a Debtor� -- 5 Paternalism and Politics: Benevolent Adversaries, Antagonistic Patrons -- The Lord�s Catechism -- Dreaming of the Well-Ordered Consiglio: Barberini Efforts to Limit Political Participation |
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Beyond Tax Trouble in the Village: Clerics, Shirkers, and Vanishing ArchivesInduce Them with Kindness to Comply with the Law -- 6 Writing Resistance: Village Attacks on Textual Monopolies in Eighteenth-Century Italy -- Everyday Controversies of the 1740s -- Making History in Monte Flavio, 1750 -- Clerical Response to Adversarial Literacy -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 The Barberini Family Tree -- Appendix 2 Money, Weights, and Measures -- Appendix 3 Population of the Stato of Monte Libretti -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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The early modern Roman countryside was a site of contestation between great aristocratic families and an expanding papal political regime. Rarely has the role of the inhabitants of this landscape--the villagers--been considered as part of that power struggle. As Caroline Castiglione shows in this compelling revisionist work, one Roman aristocratic family, the Barberini, was not squeezed out of governing by the extension of the papal bureaucracy, but rather became increasingly engaged with it during the long eighteenth century. Through their participation in the rural commune, villagers in an e |
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Barberini family.
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Barberini family fast |
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Nobility -- Italy -- Rome -- History
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Feudalism -- Italy -- Monte Libretti -- History
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Villages -- Italy -- Monte Libretti -- History
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Papacy -- History -- 1566-1799.
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Feudalism
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Nobility
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Papacy
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Politics and government
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Villages
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Monte Libretti (Italy) -- History
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Rome (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1420-1798. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006697
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Italy -- Monte Libretti
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Italy -- Rome
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780195346626 |
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0195346629 |
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